Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — Old Time News. [ARTICLE]

Old Time News.

Fifty-One Years Ago. JASPER BANNER, Nov. 22, 1885. The paper put np a most |strenuou? holler because the new c iinty auditor had sent the delinquent tax list out of the county to be printed, and which action was declared “pusillanimous and vindictive in the extreme,” and the office ont of the county which was to print it was declared to be a “miserable rat concern.” It was not a fair and now would not be a lawful act, to send the list away to be printed, bnt probably the editor’s violent language in resenting it made matters all the worse for him. Those were the days when tarring and feathering and riding on a rail were realities as means of unlawful popular punishment, and a young man at Galensburg, Mich., had been put thru the whole program for insulting a young lady. Suicide was said to then be an established epidemic in France. Not a single mention of any local happening appeared in this issue.

Thirty-Seven fears AgoRENSSELAER UNION, NOV. 18, 1869. Henry H. Watson and Mary £L Shortridge were married by Elder Halstead, at the bride’s parents in Hanging grove, on Nov. 17th. ■Jim Maloy was th inked for a mess of fish and the bridal couple for supply of cake. The Progressive Spiritualists had rented the hall over Willey & Sigler’s store and installed a $125 organ and engaged JC. P. Hopkina to play it. The spiritualises werecutting quite a swath in those days Duck and goose shooting continued good and on Tuesday evening three boys caught 50 pounds of" pike in the river. Three “men” had been in town Tuesday looking for a “young gentleman” who bad stolen $125 from some section hands at Goodland. Whether the men caught the gentleman was not stated.